Aden - Abdel Ghani Yahia
Three elements of Houthi militias have been killed, while others have been injured during an operation conducted by Yemen’s Popular Resistance loyal to the legitimate government at Beida Governorate. According to sources, the elements of Popular Resistance attacked a checkpoint related to the insurgents in Sowmaa directorate, saying that the military operation led to the killing of three insurgents and the injury of two others.
The sources revealed that the resistance still besieges a leading member of Houthi militias called Abu Khaled at Qaweem area, adding that the residents cut the roads to prevent any campaigns from the militias to protect him. The Houthi leader is wanted by the Yemeni authorities over accusation of killing a citizen called Mohamed Ahmed Al Shamry and injuring one of Yemeni tribal leaders called Sheikh Ali Al Aqel.
There were fierce battles between the two sides on the eastern front, while government forces repulsed a militia attack on the area of Camp Russians, in Kalaba, forced them to retreat and flee.
The fighting in the eastern front left dozens dead and wounded in the ranks of the militias, while one member of the government forces was killed and three wounded.
A number of field fronts are also taking place on the western coast of the country and west of the city of Taiz, south of the country, fierce battles between the government forces supported by the Arab coalition fighters on the one hand and between Saleh and Houthi militias on the other.
The Arab coalition fighters launched a series of raids on the positions of militias in the area of Al-Barh, the Directorate accepted, in the western axis of the city, coinciding with the intensification of the fighting on the fronts of the Directorate. According to a security source, fierce fighting between the two sides broke out after fierce attacks on the militias on the market Kdha, but government forces forced them to retreat.
The sources said that government forces and air cover of coalition fighters and Apache helicopters launched a fierce attack on the positions of the militia stationed in the vicinity of the camp Khalid bin Walid. These battles coincided with the other is increasingly harmful between the two sides in the vicinity of Mount Fire, east of the coastal directorate.
According to military sources, the attack targeted the Presidency House and its surrounding military areas controlled by Houthi insurgents and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The sources described the attack as a turning point in the battle between the legitimate troops and the insurgents, saying that Houthis have not expected the ability of Yemen’s governmental troops to target them in the capital.
Local residents said that a number of explosions have been heard in the Yemeni Capital of Sana’a in the surrounding area of Sabeen Square and House of Presidency. One of the residents said that three shells have dropped in Sawan district in the eastern side of the city, while they have not led to the fall of any victims.